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|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn=17873017450356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=ConfidenceDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Denise MinaStig Abell|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We're back in the world of podcasters Anna and FinFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It was Anna who'd organised There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the 'family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now future of his life with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his vet girlfriend, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult Livia and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a storm lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she begins talking about Anna's past, including wants for herself and her real name and daughter? For the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell moment they’re enjoying life in the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess present and ten-year-old Lizzie - when putting the time was right. And this wasn't future on the right timeback burner.
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|isbn=178763566X1786482126|title=Listen to MeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Tess GerritsenElly Griffiths
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|summary=We're Builders were demolishing an old house in Boston with Amy. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, butteryNorwich -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're site was going to be ruined hold seventy- and unsafe five 'luxury' apartments - in when they discovered the snow that's now fallingbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As she crosses the road Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, a car comes out of nowhere and hits herDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't stop. Two months later, we're that she is pregnant with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and his child as a keen defender result of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesone night they spent together some three months ago. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time prone to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionssudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=00083956320008551324|title=One Last SecretThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Adele ParksNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Natalya It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an escortopen prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. WellNot much to ask, her nameis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's not ''actually'' Natalya: even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain thatDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritagehappening. She}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's actually thirty-onesixteen years since nine-year-old Teodora DziewulskiRosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, usually known as Dora Wulskiand her father are dead in their bed. If youInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there're thinking s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'escorts disappearance: others (such as Derwent' as being a polite description of a prostitutes boss, run by Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a pimpworking-class young man, who's turning tricks to fund a drug habitobsessed with his upper-class friends, forget itRobert and Stanza. Dora is Robert's a professional in all senses of the wordtheatre director. She has an agentHe's also self-obsessed, Elspethdemanding, who takes 30% of her income handsome and entitled and deals uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with the payments but checks out the clients Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to see that Dora is going to be safeRobert. Dora describes herself as Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majestyrelationship had begun between them but he's Revenue and Customsnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=David SolomonsJo Callaghan|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyLeave No Trace
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin When a man is being followedfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, seemingly constantlyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, by the new (AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very annoying) girl at schoolsuccessful with several cold cases. Only this But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is not your typical boy meets girl storysuddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Because Will they be able to solve the case in this instancetime, or will Kat find herself taken off the girl in question is Niki, case and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because out of Nikia career?|isbn=0857639935139851120X
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1399613073|title=The Mermaid CallMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't existOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. But she also knows they have Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to exist – at least in the public eye. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without themcardiothoracic surgeon. A hundred years Laura is a perfectionist and change ago, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out with the Great War efforta trauma doctor. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create Anjali is the free spirit of the town's tourism industry, now faded group and falling apart but once she becomes a feminist success storyGP. Alice, When we first meet them they're at a girl who stumbles into Vivien's grandrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's tourist shop one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids going to exist – she thinks her familyend in tragedy. We don's black sheep died searching for them, t know who suffered the tragedy or else was just too successful in her huntthe consequences. When the shy, doubting Thomasina Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that is Vivien collides with will impact the exuberantthree friends. This time, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=17398051000241636604|title=Loving the EnemyThe Trading Game: Building bridges in a time of warA Confession|author=Andrew MarchGary Stevenson
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary= ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story If you were to bring up an image of author Andrew Marcha city banker in your mind, you's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went re unlikely to Dresden to teach in the early days think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Nazi regime in pin-stripe suit and his background is the 1930s. FredEast End, where he was familiar with violence, a sensitive poverty and thoughtful man, injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had some vague ideas been to the London School of "building bridges" Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at the timewhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a lifetimetrader.
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|isbn=B0B575J99N1035021803|title=Beneath the PorticoesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Brooke AdamsC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girlIt's school in Yorktwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. It was She''comfortable'' but she longed s back now because of a request for something more in lifehelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya'd s former mentor and Carole''still not found s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the right vocation nor met circumstances seem suspicious, to say the right man'' and now least. Arthur was the time reason why Freya had not been back to make a changethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she applied for has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the professoressa job in Bolognaprofession she loved. After the split, she worked in a telephone interviewcafe, she was offered met and married James (on the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring rebound from the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before love of her first class but it went surprisingly welllife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1529125898AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Godmersham ParkAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Gill HornbyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=''If it were not for Opening up new ways of thinking about the casual dereliction shape of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women things to teach well-bred daughters at allcome.''
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|author=Lev Parikian Sunny Singh|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeThrillers |summary= If you’re The Hotel Arcadia is a writer yourself, or luxury hotel in an aspiring writerunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, or someone who pretends to writekilling everyone on site, then you know that there are unnumbered types of books. Some you read for funis Sam, some for distractiona wartime photographer and Abhi, some the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for vicarious emotionthe residents who are still alive in the hotel, some he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to learn from in a random waybe cowed by events, some for focussed researchand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and some because they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they arediscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, broadly speakingthey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the kind of thing family 'Down South'. When you think you might like to write're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. OrFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, indeedSharon, are actually trying and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to writeanyone.|isbn=1783966386
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|isbn=07515815771398524085|title=Lying Beside YouHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Michael RobothamNicci French
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthdayparty but never turned up. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived the carnage - EliasHer children, who was sent to Ramptonsons Niall, Paul and his thirteenOllie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old brotherher husband, CyrusAlec, who hid in a shed until the police found himis not. Twenty years laterShortly afterwards, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist Etty and heGreg, find the body of Greg's been told that his brother is being releasedfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Can Cyrus forgive It was an easy assumption for the sinner whilst having police to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he bear to have Elias living in couldn't stand the same house? guilt. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=140595115X1035906708|title=A Stranger on BoardDiva|author=Cameron WardDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from the beginningWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, we know this will not turn out wellin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Eight days into the trip Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'Callas' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power make it more manageable in the AtlanticStates. Those of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the crew Nazi occupation by a mother who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore mercilessly exploited her and there is made no way secret of making contact. But let's go back to when all this startedher preference for her elder sister, in SouthamptonJackie.
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|isbnauthor=1398508632Christopher Edge|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=It had been on the cards Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a while but it was movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year nickname of eating only wild food'The Black Hole'. The end All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of Novemberexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not as the best time to startmovie starts, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Brexit and a pandemicthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Wilde had a few advantages: But as they lurch from one film genre to the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? She had electricity which allowed her Will they ever get back to run a fridgethe cinema, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|isbnauthor=1635864674Rachel Greenlaw|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, Compass and More|author=Joy HowardBlade|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryTeens|summary=''Think I can hear the song of it as no-whining diningthe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|isbnauthor=0241989027James Sherwood Metts|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryPlanet Storyland
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised Things have been a bit sticky for live-in help the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as he was failing they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke think of the ability other, new ways to cook a good steakspend time, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsalong came an awful pandemic. The first person who came to the house Life was Francoisepretty much shut down and, a French woman in her early twentiesalong with it, who fit all the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been mademany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Matthew Tree|title=Tasting SunlightWe'll Never Know
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just Timothy Wyndham wants space, and for people nothing more than to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around herbe different from his father, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties drunk and seems to live alone. Liss is unlike chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any other adult Sally has ever metof his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her a room So Tim applied himself to sleep inhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the space to just be. As they work together on the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1914585143B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Jennifer MasonA G Slatter|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed the 2004 Olympics, a womenThere's track coach with a yen part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-however long I can. This secret magic of-the-art S&M dungeonmy own, a man serving a life sentence in Alabamaall mine, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on at last. I just want to enjoy it for a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia..while.''
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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529900360|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors IIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookers fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, His assertions that there were only open-and shows how 2021 drew -shut cases which didn't need the two closer and closer togetherhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. The meeting was some unspecified combinationFinally, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was recitingRobin, and her being in a Delaware''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brookers partner, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the rabbit-hole involvement was something that is Jewell's diverse outputthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than to follow her through Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a year remote property in Bel Air. He was the published authorheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's life, working to make a success of the latest title, and struggling with not the next in lineItalian. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is But which of them was the result.|isbn=1529136024primary target?
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|isbn=18011092651529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The CompanionSecret Life of a Vet|author=Lesley ThomsonSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'GP and Rowlands didn' and he was - as usual - late t want to pick up follow in his sonfootsteps, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for particularly when he considered the boystrain that being on-call put on his father's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when life. When he was seventeen he returned. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are took the victims opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a double stabbing on vet and was convinced this was the beachjob for him. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. SheIt hadn's feeling the pressuret - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=152941363X0861541774|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief Nye of Police Novel)Pheasants|author=Martin WalkerSteve Burrows|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s close friend and much of the Vézère valley and works closely former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')an old ally, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneGuy Trueman. They're not just policemen Maik was involved in a street brawl - they're both deeply committed to the wellhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francehe killed a Ghurka. The discovery of an oldInitially, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in he faced a ditch wouldn't normally charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have worried them so much had it not been for planned to murder the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carman. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of Now he could be facing the cardeath penalty. A golf bag would be a good place Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to hide help as any interference from another police force could provoke a sniperdiplomatic incident and wouldn's weapont help Danny at all. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?
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|isbnauthor=0241542405Alexander McCall Smith|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderThe Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' operating as an alternative to: all the online apps in factproviding a more personal, she so nearly doestailored service. Her outdoor clothes are on Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and she's even considered which shoes look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to wear if she's going Canada to catch her trainget away for a while. ThenKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, she can'tand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She simply can't force herself And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to leave 44 Scotland Street and the safety of her homeIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She's fortunate that she Katie has no experience in running a good friendbusiness, Sadieor in match-making, who visits regularly with but Ness has full confidence in her two childrenabilities, James and Matilda. Sadiethere's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith always her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries very helpful (and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRLrather handsome) neighbour, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding HandsWilliam, to lend a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=B09Y451X9K0811771741|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in InstaKnits for tea)Baby|author=Richard F WalkerMelissa Leapman
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|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's 'Anything can happen at 'InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a birthday partycollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord cosy afternoons in front of the Manorfire' variety. But when an eerie signal is picked up in The projects are divided by the early time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antoniafive to ten hours, embark on a quest ten to uncover its incredible messagetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets All the cat out of the bag projects are attractive, modern and the world goes into a state of panicuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powers me being picky.
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|author=Darren ShanDean Koontz|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 The Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary= SoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. We're back Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shanhis home, and it's saga of Archibald Loxpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a young man who can pick nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the locks of portals from our world delivery to anotherhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called the ''Merge''. Since his last adventureSpike, Archie who has persuaded his foster parents into been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a slightly uneasy truce on the topic good person. Spike is going to take care of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions Benny, and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine will certainly take care of visiting WinstonBenny's enemies, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojoif he, the young guardianBenny, around our world of the Bornand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1662500491
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|author=John Henry PhillipsAdam Stower|title=The SearchMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers |summary=Archaeology cannot Murray is supposed to be child's playa humble, tidy and friendly cat, when you're scraping in the dirt looking one who is able to find what you can findsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latterwell, as our author promises to locate the topic whatever takes his fancy next of the titular searchtwo. And But he really hasn't made it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old manbad magician's visit back to Francecat, our author so his favourite bun has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandy, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect been turned into a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perished. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182}}{{Frontpage|author=Fiona Longmuir|title=Looking for Emily|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town hyperactive sticky rabbit called EdgeBun, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns the catflap they both use can chuck them out that she doesn't have any say in , not into the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself knownregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and in a big waywhiffs. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled This time round it drops them into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectsViking land, in some converted houses behind where a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam troll hunter is completely unaware of this 'museum'expected – well, tooone much bigger than Murray was, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatbe honest, but he's behind the intrigue...turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=18399427540008561249
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|isbn=B09XZMCDVFB0C47LV1PC|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesFragility|author=Richard F WalkerMosby Woods
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|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''A news vendor Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is crying out the headlines in question should you make it? Or is the middle of question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler answer for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…''both could well be.... no.
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|isbn=18009012321529431735|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{FrontpageWinter Visitor|author=Daisy Hildyard|title=EmergencyJames Henry
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|summary=Part of It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thrillermore surprising. Beginning with He'd been exiled on the death of Costa del Sol as a young woman in wanted drug smuggler for a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into decade. The return has come about because he's had a farletter from his ex-reaching investigation of murder, fraudwife, saying that she's ill and international pharmaceutical dealingshasn't long to live. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains sent to a watery grave in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns boot of the investigationa stolen Ford Sierra. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much more dangerous, is going on.|isbn=1914585127home?
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|isbnauthor=0008541477Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was Eli is a hot summer busy lad – by day right an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the beginning of the summer holidays dessert cafe his gran owns and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesruns... And only on rare-sh occasions Eli lives with his lovely gran, which too – for there is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of a generation missing in the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricket. There's also MarcieA few short years ago, whoEli's main claim parents were both lost to fame seems the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be that she steals navigate the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read world in the airing cupboardcompany of a magical beast. Clarice would love This has made the race anathema to have someone who listened the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to hera confession from gran, rather than wanting Eli knows his only hope is to talkdare to enter what he most hates, but with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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